Re: Questions about Elementary Math

You shouldn't have needed to reboot, but who knows what else was going
on...  A reboot never hurts :-)

There's no way to adjust the position using mlongdiv attrs. I tried playing
with mpadded, but because MathPlayer places the : and =, those tricks don't
work. So I'm sorry to say there doesn't seem to be a way to change that.

If you have suggestions for improving mlongdiv such as adding a
tight=true/false for making the divisor tight against the dividend vs what
MathPlayer currently does where it pushes it to the right of the "division
stack" (my name -- maybe there's an official name for that). Of course,
tight would only apply to those longdivstyles where it is sensible. I'm not
saying that "tight" is the right attribute to add, but just throwing it out
as a possibility.

    Neil



On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Grégory Pakosz <gpakosz@myscript.com> wrote:

>  Nevermind,
>
>
>  I didn't reboot my Windows 7 + IE9 VM after having installed MathPlayer
> since instructions said I just had to relaunch IE.
>
>
>  In any case, is there a way to adjust the position of the divisor and
> the quotient?
>
>
>  My use case is the following: I recognize handwritten elementary math
> operations and I would like to position everything with respect to what's
> been written. In the screenshot attached, to achieve that, I would need to
> shift ":891 = 12" a bit to the left.
>
>
>  Thanks.
>
> Gregory
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Grégory Pakosz
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2014 5:54 PM
> *To:* Neil Soiffer; David Carlisle
> *Cc:* www-math@w3.org
>
> *Subject:* RE: Questions about Elementary Math
>
>
> Neil,
>
>
>  Thanks for the information. MathFlow tools are not downloadable for
> evaluation.
>
>
>  That said, MathPlayer fails to render the following MathML, see
> screenshot attached.
>
>
>  <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
>   <mstyle displaystyle="true">
>     <mstack stackalign="right">
>       <mscarries>
>         <none/>
>         <mn> 1 </mn>
>         <none/>
>       </mscarries>
>       <msrow>
>         <mn> 241 </mn>
>       </msrow>
>       <msrow>
>         <mo> + </mo>
>         <none/>
>         <mn> 29 </mn>
>       </msrow>
>       <msline position="0" length="3"/>
>       <msrow>
>         <mn> 270 </mn>
>       </msrow>
>     </mstack>
>   </mstyle>
> </math>
>
>
>  Gregory
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* neil.soiffer@gmail.com <neil.soiffer@gmail.com> on behalf of Neil
> Soiffer <NeilS@dessci.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:03 PM
> *To:* David Carlisle
> *Cc:* Grégory Pakosz; www-math@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Questions about Elementary Math
>
>   As noted, MathPlayer (which died at IE9 unless MS fixes a bug in
> enterprise mode -- enterprise mode was introduced a few months back),
> supports it. Along with MathPlayer, the MathFlow SDK tools
> (EquationComposer and DocumentComposer) also support it. That's where the
> rec's images came from.
>
>      Neil
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:10 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>  On 24/06/2014 15:56, Grégory Pakosz wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>
>>  I have two questions regarding elementary math as specified by MathML
>> 3.0:
>>
>>
>>  1) Is there a renderer out there that supports rendering additions,
>> substractions, multiplications, and divisions with <mstack>, <mscarries>,
>> and <mlongdiv> ? I failed to find one so far (downgrading IE to IE9 +
>> installing a plugin isn't really future proof).
>>
>>
>>
>>  Possibly currently only MathPlayer supports it natively, and as you
>> indicate that is not available in current IE
>>  however it's possible to transform the markup to mathml2 for rendering
>> in other clients.
>>
>> The MathJax "content mathml" extension and the firefox  mathml-mml3ff
>> addon both work by using some XSLT of mine
>> to translate the markup to mathml2 mtable.
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/web-xslt/source/browse/trunk/ctop
>>
>> Most of that content mathml to presentation transformation has also been
>> re-encoded in javascript to avoid the XSLT stage
>> (which is very slow in chrome) although not currently the elementary math
>> part, that shouldn't be hard to add, given some time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   2) Despite being XML, <mstack> relies on children order instead of
>> named elements like <dividend>, <divisor>, <quotient>. What's the rationale
>> behind this choice?
>>
>>
>>
>>  Positional children are used quite a lot in the mathml design: mfrac
>> msub etc  also do not have named arguments.
>>
>>   Thanks you,
>>
>> Gregory
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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